WITH just two days until the launch of Swindon’s War Weapons Week, messages of encouragement were published in a full page advertisement paid for by the Kingsdown brewer, J Arkell and Sons.
“It does not matter how much we women detest war, we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that in this war women and children are in the front line,” wrote May George, the Mayor of Swindon in 1935-6, from her home at 17 Croft Road.
“Let the women of Swindon show what they can do to help in the defeat of the enemies of everything that we hold dear.”
SC Casson, the chairman of Stratton Council, urged everyone in Stratton to assist to the utmost in helping the Swindon district not only to attain but well surpass its goal in the War Weapons Week.
From the Air Ministry, in Whitehall, Swindon’s MP Mr W W Wakefield, reminded Swindonians that every bomb on Germany meant one less on them.
“The sooner we can destroy German means of production and communication, the quicker will victory be won,”
he wrote.
“By lending your money you are protecting yourself.”
Swindon Corporation placed one of their vehicles at the disposal of the War Weapons Week Committee.
The decorated double-decker served as a mobile selling centre and visited various locations in the town as part of the week-long campaign.
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